New sequencing technology Ion Torrent has made a splash with a paper in today's issue of Nature. There's no question the high-impact publication is a massive boost for the young platform, now nestled ...

The recent development of a semiconductor-based, non-optical DNA sequencing technology promises scalable, low-cost and rapid sequence data production. The technology has previously been applied mainly ...

In our recent best of 2011 post, we wrote about the plummeting costs of genome sequencing, and just days into the new year another big leap has been taken. Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies ...

Nat. Biotechnol. 30, 434–439 (2012); published online 22 April 2012; corrected online 23 April 2012; corrected after print 7 June 2012 In the version of this article initially published online, in the ...

Next generation sequencing technologies were developed to improve on the speed and efficiency of shotgun-style Sanger sequencing. The technologies that fall into this category include Illumina (Solexa ...